Dreger: Oilers and Sens were close to a Hall for Ceci deal before it fell through (Hall ended up in NJ)

[snipes]

Chia is an idiot with his major trades but Dreger is also incredibly unreliable.

 

[Jarey Curry]

A monster package of question marks. I think Colorado did okay in the Duchene deal, but its pretty hard to compare two trades when one netted a 2/3 shutdown defenseman, and one netted a pile of prospects and picks.

Girard is a prospect agewise but he already plays in NHL and can only get better and better. Gorgeous upside. 7 pieces all in all, 5 of the are gonna end up in NHL, 3 of them as good or higher potential than Larsson. Of course Larsson is ahead as of right now but my point was Chiarelli could have shot even bigger hole in his trader partners assets by playing the waiting game longer and demanding Hall esque dman back. Someone with a good 2way play and offensive gifts.

 

[ottomaddox]

Why do you say that? Go to the Oilers forums and read the Hall for Larsson trade thread... do you think we were all out celebrating in the streets?


Here's the thread: http://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/edm-njd-taylor-hall-for-adam-larsson-mod-warning-191.2098759/

Basically shows that your just making **** up and posting stuff bashing oilers fans for no reason

I don't make this up. Based on your overreaction I am not going to comb HF and quote every discussion I had about Hall/Larsson. Instead I shall just watch you overreact.

 

[Former Referee 68]

So it took Dreger a year and a half to come up with this? He is a f***ing hack

 

[Joey Moss]

Yawn Dreger..

 

[CamelToews]

Exactly. Dreger's such a hack that he couldn't even complete the trifecta:

"Chiarelli really needed a shakeup after failing to land a generational player in Auston Matthews at the draft"

Edit:



I'm still super curious to hear about this over PM if you're willing.

Same here.

 

[FerrisRox]

You can click his tag on the main page, and it shows all the Threads that have been created due to news he's broke:
That involves:

3 Way trade between Ott/Col/Nash involving Duchene has fallen through

Devils leaning towards taking Nico Hischier Friday

Islanders and Avalanche lead Eberle sweepstakes

Hammer more likely to be moved then Seabrook

Eberle has probably played last game for Oilers

Rangers "zeroing in" on Brendan Smith


That's on the first page alone, obviously he isn't perfect, no insider really is. But to the people who think he is on Eklunds level and just throws **** at the wall are very wrong. Even if he's wrong I have no problem with him throwing some stuff he's heard out there that probably won't happen. It's fun to discuss, and makes a league that doesn't have lots of movement a little less boring.

I don't care enough to really turn this into a back and forth, but he didn't break most of these. It's not my mission here to "turn" people against Darren Dreger, I was merely saying any fan should take whatever he has to say with a massive grain of salt.

 

[Korpse]

reminds me of when Ottawa nixed the Perry + 1st for Comrie deal....Funny that the sens just missed on two of the biggest steals ever.

You sure it reminds you of when Ottawa nixed the Perry + 1st for Comrie deal?

 

[SI90]

What’s the point of this coming out now?

 

[Leon Draisaitl]

People believe Dreger? Dude has no sources and hasn't been at the front of any rumours in years.

 

[justafan22]

Most said eberle for ceci was discussed

 

[BLONG7]

Leave it to Dreger, to bring up something that almost happened TWO years ago..............pretty sharp reporting.

 

[branch]

The HF hivemind in full effect regarding Ceci in this thread. It is amazing to watch.

 

[ManofSteel55]

What’s the point of this coming out now?

Dreger needed a story, so he made one up.

 

[ManofSteel55]

Girard is a prospect agewise but he already plays in NHL and can only get better and better. Gorgeous upside. 7 pieces all in all, 5 of the are gonna end up in NHL, 3 of them as good or higher potential than Larsson. Of course Larsson is ahead as of right now but my point was Chiarelli could have shot even bigger hole in his trader partners assets by playing the waiting game longer and demanding Hall esque dman back. Someone with a good 2way play and offensive gifts.

Well that is possibly false because Chiarelli was probably shopping Hall around for a long time. He also wanted to get Hall off of the books so he could sign his replacement as free agency opened without going over the cap. He likely would have had even worse offers had he signed Lucic and then tried to move Hall, as everyone would then know for sure that Chia HAD to move Hall for a defenseman.

I like Girard by the way, I agree that he is a great piece. But he could very well be the only thing of substance that Colorado got in that trade.

 

[TLEH]

I don’t believe this at all.

 

[SpezDispenser]

I'm gonna pretend I never heard this. Lalalala

 

[ThePhoenixx]

Complete and utter bullshit.

 

[treple13]

Man, imagine Ottawa with Hall and Hischier right now...

 

[CuriousGeorge]

dreger mentioned it today. Obviously it means nothing since it Never happened. Always interesting to see deals that didn't happen but were close. Would that have been a fair deal?

Does that mean Oilers won?

 

[Tobias Kahun]

reminds me of when Ottawa nixed the Perry + 1st for Comrie deal....Funny that the sens just missed on two of the biggest steals ever.

Usually a good idea to have the facts correct when you post

 

[McFlyingV]

reminds me of when Ottawa nixed the Perry + 1st for Comrie deal....Funny that the sens just missed on two of the biggest steals ever.

You mean when Edmonton nixed the Comrie for Perry+1st deal because Comrie wouldn't pay back his bonus money?

 

[danielpalfredsson]

Garrioch reported a few days ago that there haven't been a lot of calls on Cody Ceci.

Any chance this leak is a deliberate favour to the Sens organization? An attempt to pump Ceci up by making it clear that at one point he almost returned a player as great as Taylor Hall?

 

[McFlyingV]

Garrioch reported a few days ago that there haven't been a lot of calls on Cody Ceci.

Any chance this leak is a deliberate favour to the Sens organization? An attempt to pump Ceci up by making it clear that at one point he almost returned a player as great as Taylor Hall?

I can't imagine that would really change anyone's opinion on what Ceci is worth. Most people around the league should know that he doesn't have a lot of value.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Edmonton dodged a bullet there. Larsson is much better.

and yet still substantially inferior to the caliber of player Taylor Hall is.

Hall shouldve fetched someone like Parako or Trouba